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DBMS > Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer Plaha
Initial release20082014201720092018
Current release7.2.4, September 20126.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScriptC
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonereplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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