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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Solr vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Solr vs. Splunk

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aisolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOpenNMS GroupquasardbApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.
Initial release20082014200920062003
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 20249.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava pluginsyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDoptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesAccess rights for users and roles

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