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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. NCache vs. Tibero

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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

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

Alachisoft

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

2005

2003

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.3.3, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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