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DBMS > Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. Interbase vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HyperSQL vs. Interbase vs. SwayDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoSimer Plaha
Initial release2008200119842018
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.7.2, June 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCScala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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