DBMS > Drizzle vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenEdge vs. RocksDB

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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.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.marklogic.com

www.progress.com/openedge

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

MarkLogic Corp.

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2001

1984

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

11.0, December 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL92

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

yes

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users and groups

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