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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. Geode vs. GeoSpock

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  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.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iogeode.apache.orggeospock.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iogeode.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GeoSpock
Initial release2008201220202002
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20172.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++CJavaJava, Javascript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lesshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnotemporal, categorical
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCin-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per table

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