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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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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.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Manticore Software

Progress Software Corporation

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2008

2017

1984

1993

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

6.0, February 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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