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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
prometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
prometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release2008198420192015
Current release7.2.4, September 2012InterBase 2020, December 20193.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC, C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoexport as XML data possiblenono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesANSI SQL 2011no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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