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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Drizzle vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

1997

2008

2016

1994

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

5.10, January 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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