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

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS 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 comparisonLokiJS  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.
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 hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmemgraph.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20082006201620142017
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen 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 CUDAJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
DrizzleGraphiteHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022LokiJSMemgraph
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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