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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Rockset vs. SQL.JS

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlquasar.airockset.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.rockset.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHughes TechnologiesquasardbRocksetAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20081994200920192012
Current release7.2.4, September 20124.4, October 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarydynamic typingyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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