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DBMS > Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. VoltDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GridGain vs. Memgraph vs. VoltDB vs. YDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 IgniteAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.commemgraph.comwww.voltdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGridGain Systems, Inc.Memgraph LtdVoltDB Inc.Yandex
Initial release20082007201720102019
Current release7.2.4, September 2012GridGain 8.5.111.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, C++, .NetC and C++Java, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Javano
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers, roles and permissionsUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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