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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaAlessandro FurieriSQream TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082012200820172016
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 20215.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono

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