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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostgreSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. PostgreSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score634.91
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#257  Overall
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#243  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitemachbase.comwww.postgresql.orgsplicemachine.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmswww.postgresql.org/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMachbasePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSplice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release200820131989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20142012
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V8.0, August 202316.2, February 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CCJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoJavano
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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