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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. openGauss vs. TerarkDB

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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.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A 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 model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#188	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#337	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

gitee.com/opengauss/docs
opengauss.org/en/docs/latest/docs/BriefTutorial/BriefTutorial.html

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Huawei and openGauss community

Terark

Initial release

2008

2019

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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