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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MarkLogic Corp.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20081991200120012020
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.711.0, December 20223.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnono
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnono

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