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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Drizzle vs. ObjectBox

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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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2023

2008

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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