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DBMS > Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Infobright vs. Memgraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  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 IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbmemgraph.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20082007201020052017
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetErlangCC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.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)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
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 nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, 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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers, roles and permissions
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