DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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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.

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2008

1994

2013

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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