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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. ObjectBox vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

objectbox.io

sql.js.org

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

ObjectBox Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2017

2012

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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