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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. Memcached

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2008

2015

1983

2003

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

19.4.1, November 2021

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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