DBMS > Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB

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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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

dgraph.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

1983

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

19.4.1, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

PHP

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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