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DBMS > Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storePort of SQLite to JavaScriptIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakersql.js.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20081983200920121998
Current release7.2.4, September 201219.4.1, November 20213.2.0, December 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
PHPC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesErlangnoPL/SQL
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
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, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, using Riak Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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