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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached vs. Sphinx

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebasex.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.memcached.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20072008201420032001
Current release11.2, August 20247.2.4, September 20121.6.29, June 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesnono
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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