DBMS > Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

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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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pouchdb.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Gigaspaces Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2008

2000

2021

2012

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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