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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Splice Machine

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareSplice Machine
Initial release19992008198420172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 2012InterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possibleCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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