DBMS > Drizzle vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.sequoiadb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2008

2005

2013

2008

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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