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

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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.

Description

MySQL 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 RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

terminusdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SAP, Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

DataChemist Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

1987

2015

2018

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

16.0

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Role-based access control

yes

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