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DBMS > Drizzle vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. Tarantool vs. Tigris

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

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#205  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
Score1.50
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#356  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.tarantool.iowww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.VKTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20082004201320082022
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonC++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava, SQLLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdata 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.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesStandard 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
Access rights for users and roles

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