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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.memcached.orgmemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20082009201520032017
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.10.0, March 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCachegRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta ServerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceAtomic single-row operationsnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesnoyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissions
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