DBMS > BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. GigaSpaces vs. Memgraph

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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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS
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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Gigaspaces Technologies

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2007

2008

2000

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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 with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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