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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa

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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.

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

McObject

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

Initial release

2008

2001

2013

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.2, 2021

6.2.28, November 2020

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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