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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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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.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

IBM

Initial release

2007

2008

2012

2017

Current release

11.0, June 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free developer edition 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
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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