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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. Netezza

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FatCloud

Hughes Technologies

IBM

Initial release

2008

2012

1994

2000

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

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

none

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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