DBMS > Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. MySQL vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. MySQL vs. ToroDB

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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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Widely used open source RDBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#375	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

8Kdata

Initial release

2008

2017

1995

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Nov 20, November 2021

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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