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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Secondary database models

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	#90	Relational DBMS
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#169	Overall
	#27	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.gigaspaces.com

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

McObject

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

2008

2001

2000

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.2, 2021

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by defining events

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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