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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kdb vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitekx.comrockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRocksetSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20082000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201919872018
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.6, May 201816.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++qC++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.yesno infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'all fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (q)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infowith viewsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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DrizzleKdbRocksetSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASETerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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