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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.geomesa.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCCRi and othersSAP, SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20232008201419871987
Current release1.0, March 20237.2.4, September 20125.0.0, May 202416.0Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoJava and Transact-SQLyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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