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

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

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#253	Overall
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

memgraph.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Social network pages

Developer

ActiveViam

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2007

2017

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

GridGain 8.5.1

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial, open source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

with proprietary extensions

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

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

Java

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users, roles and permissions

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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