DBMS > Drizzle vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Description

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.postgresql.fastware.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

InterSystems

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2008

2005

2018

2006

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2023.3, June 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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