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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2014

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

hosted

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

JDBC

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

using Azure authentication

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