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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. SQL.JS vs. Sqrrl vs. XTDB

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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.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

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Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

sql.js.org

sqrrl.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2012

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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