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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hazelcast vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

hazelcast.com

postgis.net

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

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

postgis.net/documentation

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hazelcast

Alessandro Furieri

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2005

2008

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.3.6, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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