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DBMS > Drizzle vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.44
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#392  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitepostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Akerinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release200820052015
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.4.2, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
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 integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
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, HTTPyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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