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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.sadasengine.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CNRS

SADAS s.r.l.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2008

2013

2006

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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