DBMS > Drizzle vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Netezza vs. Newts vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

opennms.github.io/newts

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2008

2000

2014

2017

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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