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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml vs. SQLite

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerObjectBox Limitedinformationpartners gmbhDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2008201720152000
Current release7.2.4, September 20124.0 (May 2024)1.03.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Windowsserver-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serverno
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
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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