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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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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.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

OpenPie

SAP

formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

1992

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.1, January 2023

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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