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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. VoltDB

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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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#212	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#142	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.kinetica.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Kinetica

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2012

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

Native and fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs, with memory first...
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Competitive advantages

Best in class geospatial and temporal analytics. Lockless architecture provides real-time...
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Typical application scenarios

Any application requiring (1) real time insights, (2) time series analysis (3) geospatial...
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Key customers

Citibank, US Air Force, Softbank, OVO, Telkomsel, USPS, 2 of the top 3 US Telcos,...
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Market metrics

The largest IoT deployment in the world, NORAD, runs on Kinetica.
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Licensing and pricing models

Always Free Tier in the Cloud, Pay-As-You-Go Consumption Based Pricing, and Portable...
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