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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Interbase vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. Teradata Aster

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  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.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
memgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.keydb.devmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Memgraph LtdTeradata
Initial release20081984201920172005
Current release7.2.4, September 2012InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageLuaR packages
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DrizzleInterbaseKeyDBMemgraphTeradata Aster
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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