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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/google/leveldb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2008

2010

2011

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.23, February 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

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

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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