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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graph Engine

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Website

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Microsoft

Initial release

2008

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

.NET

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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