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DBMS > Drizzle vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.09
Rank#174  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score19.44
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
postgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release200820192005
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.0, March 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C, C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)yes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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