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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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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.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Simer Plaha

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2008

2018

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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