DBMS > 4D vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. KeyDB vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. KeyDB vs. Linter

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

www.mcobject.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

linter.ru

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

McObject

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

relex.ru

Initial release

1984

2008

2001

2019

1990

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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