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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Oracle vs. PouchDB vs. SiriDB

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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

Widely used RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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

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

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

www.oracle.com/database

pouchdb.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Gigaspaces Technologies

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Cesbit

Initial release

2008

2000

1980

2012

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

23c, September 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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