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DBMS > Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteA 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 modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RocksetAlessandro FurieriByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082010201920082016
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typingyesno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
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 databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenono

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