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DBMS > Drizzle vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SwayDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitepouchdb.comrethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SAP, formerly SybaseSimer Plaha
Initial release20082012200919942018
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 202016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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