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DBMS > Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDengine vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDengine vs. Vitess

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 HBaseTime Series DBMS and big data platformScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
vitess.io
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Akercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTDEngine, previously Taos DataThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2008201120192013
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.0, August 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaCGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
DrizzleOpenTSDBTDengineVitess
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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