DBMS > Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

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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.

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CCRi and others

Qdrant

SAP, Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2008

2014

2021

1987

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.0.0, May 2024

16.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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