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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. GigaSpaces vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. GigaSpaces vs. Machbase Neo vs. PouchDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.gigaspaces.commachbase.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGigaspaces TechnologiesMachbaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release20082009200020132012
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.10.0, March 202215.5, September 2020V8.0, August 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetCJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCacheGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Java.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersyes, event driven architecturenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlno

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