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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. openGauss

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL 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 Neo4jAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.datomic.commemgraph.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.commemgraph.com/­docsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMemgraph LtdHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20142012200820172019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 20123.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++C and C++C, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBCBolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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