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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. InfinityDB vs. RethinkDB vs. XTDB vs. YDB

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Boiler Bay Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2002

2009

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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