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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. STSdb

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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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2012

2002

2016

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

21.2, February 2021

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C#
Java
PHP

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

yes

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