DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LokiJS vs. Memgraph vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. LokiJS vs. Memgraph vs. SQLite

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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

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

Google'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 JavaScript DBMS

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

memgraph.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

memgraph.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

2017

2000

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JavaScript API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

JavaScript

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

none

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

Atomic single-row operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

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