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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.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Object-relational database and reports server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.71
Rank	#91	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#302	Overall
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

orientdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Paradigma Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2010

1999

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.2.29, March 2024

5.7.5

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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