DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SWC-DB

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

alasql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

Oracle

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2008

2014

2007

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

14.1, August 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

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 language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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