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DBMS > Drizzle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsSpatial extension of SQLiteA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSAP infoformerly SybaseAlessandro FurieriByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2008199220082016
Current release7.2.4, September 201217, July 20155.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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