DBMS > Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. MaxDB vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EJDB vs. Geode vs. MaxDB vs. OpenSearch

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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

MySQL 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)

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

geode.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

geode.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Softmotions

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2008

2012

2002

1984

2021

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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