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DBMS > BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Netezza vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Netezza vs. Vertica

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 Neo4jData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgmemgraph.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmemgraph.com/­docsvertica.com/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMemgraph LtdIBMOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20072008201720002005
Current release10.7, August 20237.2.4, September 201212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBCBolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
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++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes infovia eventsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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BaseXDrizzleMemgraphNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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