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DBMS > Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. InfinityDB vs. Memgraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comboilerbay.commemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerBoiler Bay Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20082007200520022017
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen 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++Java, C++, .NetJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJava.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, 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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissions
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