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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. Trafodion

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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.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

memgraph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2008

2017

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users and groups

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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