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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox vs. SurrealDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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)High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOxford Semantic TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2008201020172022
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.2.29, March 20246.0, Septermber 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)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")yes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascript
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRoles, resources, and access typesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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