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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Galaxybase vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. XTDB

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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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

galaxybase.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

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

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2017

2009

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

Nov 20, November 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C++

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Go
Java
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Erlang

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes, using Riak Security

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