DBMS > Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2010

1991

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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