DBMS > Drizzle vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SpaceTime vs. TerarkDB

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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.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A 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 model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

boilerbay.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Mireo

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2002

2010

2020

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

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

C#
C++
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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