DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. GridDB vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. GridDB vs. MariaDB

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

griddb.net

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.griddb.net

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Toshiba Corporation

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

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2016

2007

2008

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

1703

11.0, June 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

5.1, August 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

XQuery supports types

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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