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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Drizzle vs. Ingres vs. SurrealDB

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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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Well established RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Arcade Data

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Actian Corporation

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2021

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2022

Current release

September 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

11.2, May 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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