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DBMS > Drizzle vs. MarkLogic vs. OushuDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MarkLogic vs. OushuDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  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.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationwww.oushu.com/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMarkLogic Corp.OushuApache Software FoundationTeradata
Initial release2008200120142005
Current release7.2.4, September 201211.0, December 20224.0.1, August 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.yesnoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoSQL92Full-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesnoR packages
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsHadoop integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, with Range Indexesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsKerberos, SSL and role based accessnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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