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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Geode vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Geode vs. GridGain vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GridGain Systems, Inc.MicrosoftSTS Soft SC
Initial release20082002200720152011
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 2017GridGain 8.5.1V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++, .NetC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes (replicated cache)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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