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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. OpenEdge vs. PouchDB vs. ToroDB

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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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Application development environment with integrated database management system

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.progress.com/openedge

pouchdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

Progress Software Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

8Kdata

Initial release

2008

2014

1984

2012

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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