DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph 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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.16
Rank	#333	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.datomic.com

memgraph.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.datomic.com

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cognitect

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2017

1995

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

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

Transaction Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

By using transaction functions

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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