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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. RethinkDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgrethinkdb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20082004201520092020
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.62.4.1, August 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes (cache interceptors and events)Client-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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