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DBMS > Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
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Score37.12
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#352  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSAP, SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20081987200120182012
Current release7.2.4, September 201216.03.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++Prolog, RustC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava and Transact-SQLnoyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlyes

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