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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb

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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.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual 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

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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