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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Splice Machine

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Widely used in-process key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris DavisMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSplice Machine
Initial release20082006199219942014
Current release7.2.4, September 20121902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201918.1.40, May 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoJava
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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