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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.High performance Time Series DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitekx.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productssiridb.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcQdrantinformationpartners gmbhCesbit
Initial release20082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003202120152017
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.6, May 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++qRustC++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes infoNumeric data
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (q)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationCollection-level replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPrights management via user accountsKey-based authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple rights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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