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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle

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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 cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

basex.org

blueflood.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

docs.basex.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

BaseX GmbH

Rackspace

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Initial release

2007

2013

2008

Current release

11.2, August 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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