DBMS > Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb

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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

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.

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.quasar.ai/master

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

quasardb

Initial release

2008

2017

2016

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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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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