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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Memgraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  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.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
memgraph.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.aimemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20082006201620092017
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++ and CUDAC++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnonorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
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.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissions
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DrizzleGraphiteHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HypertableMemgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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