DBMS > Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Splunk

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

objectbox.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.objectbox.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Embarcadero

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2008

1984

1989

2017

2003

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Access rights for users and roles

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