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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hazelcast vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EDB Postgres vs. Hazelcast vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.A widely adopted in-memory data gridTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comhazelcast.commachbase.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEnterpriseDBHazelcastMachbaseDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20082005200820132003
Current release7.2.4, September 201214, December 20215.3.6, November 2023V8.0, August 20231.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaCC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnono
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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