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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite vs. StarRocks vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Spatial extension of SQLite

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.starrocks.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Alessandro Furieri

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2014

2008

2020

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1.12, February 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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