DBMS > Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch

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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.

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2008

2015

2017

2016

2021

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

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

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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