DBMS > Drizzle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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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.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SAP

formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

1992

2015

2017

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

17, July 2015

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Source-replica replication

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 capabilities

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

yes

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

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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