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DBMS > Drizzle vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  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.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Application development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­openedgesql.js.orgwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerProgress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTimescale8Kdata
Initial release20081984201220172016
Current release7.2.4, September 2012OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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