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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. NuoDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

www.geomesa.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

doc.nuodb.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CCRi and others

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

2008

2014

2013

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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