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DBMS > Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. Galaxybase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. Galaxybase vs. VelocityDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgalaxybase.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEvent Store LimitedChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2008201220172011
Current release7.2.4, September 201221.2, February 2021Nov 20, November 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Callbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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