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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MarkLogic vs. QuestDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.marklogic.comquestdb.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.marklogic.comquestdb.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMarkLogic Corp.QuestDB Technology IncDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008200120142018
Current release7.2.4, September 201211.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL92SQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole-based access control
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DrizzleMarkLogicQuestDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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