DBMS > Drizzle vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

realm.io

sqrrl.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2008

2014

2012

1999

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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