DBMS > Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gridgain.com

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2008

2007

2017

1989

2004

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

GridGain 8.5.1

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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