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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. Memcached

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release200820142003
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.no
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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