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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Machbase Neo vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

machbase.com

typedb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

typedb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Machbase

Vaticle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2008

2013

2016

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V8.0, August 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Based on Windows Authentication

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