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DBMS > Drizzle vs. openGauss vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. openGauss vs. Rockset vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
rockset.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
docs.rockset.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHuawei and openGauss communityRocksetTimescale
Initial release2008201920192017
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.0, March 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaC++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingnumerics, 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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL 2011Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser 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.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Automatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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