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DBMS > Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. jBASE vs. OceanBase

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. jBASE vs. OceanBase

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9en.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20082010201819912010
Current release7.2.4, September 20122023.3, June 20235.74.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesoptionalyes
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.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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