DBMS > Drizzle vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS

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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.

Widely used RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

splicemachine.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Splice Machine

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2008

1980

2006

2014

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

23c, September 2023

8.0

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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