DBMS > Drizzle vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sequoiadb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Percona

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alessandro Furieri

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2013

2008

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.0.36-28, 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple password-based access control

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