DBMS > Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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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.

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.monetdb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

MonetDB BV

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Initial release

2008

2012

2004

2021

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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