DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. MariaDB vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. MariaDB vs. OpenQM vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

altibase.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1999

2008

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1993

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

11.3.2, February 2024

3.4-12

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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