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DBMS > Drizzle vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitequestdb.iowww.snowflake.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20082014200920142014
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.2.0, December 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlanguser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"yesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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