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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. mSQL vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Hughes Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

1994

2015

2011

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

4.4, October 2021

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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

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