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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. OpenEdge vs. RethinkDB 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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.progress.com/openedge

rethinkdb.com

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

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hughes Technologies

Progress Software Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

1994

1984

2009

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

close to SQL 92

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users and groups

yes

users and table-level permissions

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