DBMS > Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle 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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

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

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

8Kdata

Initial release

2008

2017

1984

1980

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Nov 20, November 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is 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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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