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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch

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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.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.monetdb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

MonetDB BV

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2008

2004

2021

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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