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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Greenplum vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP IQ

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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.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	8.37
Rank	#48	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Pivotal Software Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2008

2005

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1994

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.0.0, September 2023

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

since Version 4.2

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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