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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Spatial extension of SQLite

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Splice Machine

Initial release

2008

2015

2008

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.0.0, August 2020

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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