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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

hbase.apache.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2008

2004

2008

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

yes

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role based authorization

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