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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. WakandaDB

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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

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1999

2008

2014

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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 views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

yes

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