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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Memcached vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTobias OetikerSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2008200319991992
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.6.27, May 20241.8.0, 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.no infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocolin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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