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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres

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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 scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#342	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2008

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

19.4.1, November 2021

12.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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