DBMS > Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

High performance Time Series DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

kx.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Percona

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2015

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.6, May 2018

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (q)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

with views

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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