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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. Netezza vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. Netezza vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-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.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#118  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEnterpriseDBIBMPercona
Initial release20072008200520002008
Current release11.2, August 20247.2.4, September 201214, December 20218.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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