DBMS > Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IBM Db2 vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite

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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

IBM

Kyligence, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

1983

host version

2016

1984

2000

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

12.1, October 2016

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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