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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Rackspace

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2008

2005

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

user defined functions

no

Triggers

no

no

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

based on PostgreSQL

no

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