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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MaxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. searchxml

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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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

SAP, formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2008

1984

1994

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.9.10.12, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Limited community edition free

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++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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