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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebolt vs. FoundationDB vs. PlanetScale

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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DB-Engines ranking.Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.ioapple.github.io/­foundationdbplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFirebolt Analytics Inc.FoundationDBPlanetScale
Initial release2008202020132020
Current release7.2.4, September 20126.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
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
depending on storage layeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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