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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Rockset

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Spatial extension of H2A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEnterpriseDBCNRSInterSystemsRockset
Initial release20082005201320182019
Current release7.2.4, September 201214, December 20212023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 functionality.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2yesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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