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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. MonetDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  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.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.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 Neo4jA relational database management system that stores data in columnsEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgmemgraph.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-server
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmemgraph.com/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMemgraph LtdMonetDB BVPercona
Initial release20072008201720042008
Current release10.7, August 20237.2.4, September 2012Dec2023 (11.49), December 20238.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCBolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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BaseXDrizzleMemgraphMonetDBPercona Server for MySQL
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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