DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. YugabyteDB

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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

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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2007

2008

2021

2015

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via events

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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