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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

informationpartners gmbh

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2014

2009

2015

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role-based access control

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