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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. FoundationDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SpatiaLite

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#191	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.hawkular.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FoundationDB

Community supported by Red Hat

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

2008

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

6.2.28, November 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

in SQL-layer only

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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