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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Sadas Engine vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.sadasengine.comsplicemachine.comsql.js.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSADAS s.r.l.Splice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20082006201420122018
Current release7.2.4, September 20128.03.1, March 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavanoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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