DBMS > Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB 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.

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2014

2015

2018

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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