DBMS > 4D vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS

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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

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

memgraph.com

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

memgraph.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Social network pages

Developer

4D, Inc

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

2008

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

10 R1, October 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

MVCC

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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