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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. PostGIS

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.99
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	19.44
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

2008

2000

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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