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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. OpenEdge

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  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 processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9documentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
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.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Progress Software Corporation
Initial release20082002201019911984
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 20175.7OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlang
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnooptionalyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)noEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and groups

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