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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Oracle Rdb

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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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#169	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/overview/index.html

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2008

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes, on a single node

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

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