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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. mSQL vs. OpenEdge

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

spotify.github.io/heroic

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

Hughes Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

1994

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users and groups

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