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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Elasticsearch vs. Rockset vs. searchxml

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchrockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerElasticRocksetinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2008201020192015
Current release7.2.4, September 20128.6, January 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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