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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. openGauss vs. OpenSearch vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

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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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Huawei and openGauss community

Amazon Web Services

informationpartners gmbh

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2019

2021

2015

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.0, March 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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