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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. HugeGraph vs. TiDB

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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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

TiDB is an open source distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that supports MySQL and Spark SQL syntaxes.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#288	Overall
	#22	Graph DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#94	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.github.io/hugegraph-doc

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Baidu

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2008

2018

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.9

5.0.1, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Groovy
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

currently only supported in syntax

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept. No user groups or roles.

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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