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DBMS > Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. PlanetScale vs. RDFox vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. PlanetScale vs. RDFox vs. Stardog

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteorientdb.orgplanetscale.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPPlanetScaleOxford Semantic TechnologiesStardog-Union
Initial release20082010202020172010
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.2.29, March 20246.0, Septermber 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language, no joinsyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBCTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Java
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascriptyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Hooksyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users and roles

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