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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. NuoDB 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.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

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

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

doc.nuodb.com

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

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Circonus LLC.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2008

2017

2013

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V0.10.20, January 2018

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Java, SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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