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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. ObjectBox vs. YottaDB

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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.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

ObjectBox Limited

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2008

2017

2001

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

More information provided by the system vendor

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