DBMS > BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

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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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.searchxml.net/category/products

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2008

1989

2015

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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