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DBMS > Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netwww.sequoiadb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Akercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSequoiadb Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Timescale
Initial release20082011201320012017
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.5.1, February 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnosimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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