DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. MySQL

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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

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Alibaba

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2008

1995

Current release

2.1, December 2018

7.2.4, September 2012

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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