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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.gridgain.commemgraph.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.Memgraph LtdSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20232008200720171992
Current release1.0, March 20237.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java, C++, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DragonflyDrizzleGridGainMemgraphSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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