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DBMS > Citus vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. SurrealDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9surrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2010200819912022
Current release8.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20125.7v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes, based on authentication and database rules

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