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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MariaDB vs. Vertica

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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.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Columnar relational DBMS designed to handle modern analytic workloads, enabling fast query performance

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	96.79
Rank	#12	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	20.68
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.vertica.com/docs/10.0.x/HTML/Content/Home.htm

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Vertica / Micro Focus

prior to that Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2008

2009

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

10.5.10, May 2021

Vertica 10.0 Software, May 2020
Vertica for SQL on Hadoop 10.0 Software, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

Available on all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Unstructured data can be stored in specific Flex-Tables

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

The concept of 'projections' can be used instead of indexes.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

nearly full SQL99 without support for indexes and triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Segmentation, Projection Segmentation, Hash Segmentation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Cluster level and Object level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Vertica Connector for Hadoop

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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