DBMS > Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. RocksDB vs. Trafodion

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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.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.kinetica.com

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Kinetica

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2012

2013

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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