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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. NuoDB vs. Tarantool

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldoc.nuodb.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.VK
Initial release20082004200720132008
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.12.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonJava, C++, .NetC++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, SQLLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes (replicated cache)yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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