DBMS > Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB

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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.

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CCRi and others

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

1997

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.5, February 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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