DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Vertica

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud 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 model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Esgyn

Percona

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2005

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

JavaScript

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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