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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. MySQL

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS info

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1283.06
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2008

1995

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.0.18, October 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GNU GPL

Open Source info

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication
Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms info

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept info

no user groups or roles

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