DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	15.00
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2008

2012

2017

1989

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

7.2.4, September 2012

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Free license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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