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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Drizzle vs. HarperDB vs. LokiJS

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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

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.harperdb.io

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

docs.harperdb.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

HarperDB

Initial release

2008

2017

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Node.js

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles

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