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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. SurrealDB

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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.

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
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	#30	Document stores
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Website

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2008

2022

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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