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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.comwww.sqlite.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Dwayne Richard HippSimer Plaha
Initial release20082017200920002018
Current release7.2.4, September 20126.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 20203.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++CScala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
Java
C 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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Client-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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