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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmemgraph.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmemgraph.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Memgraph Ltdquasardb
Initial release20082006201020172009
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++PythonErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
hostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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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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