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

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

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEmbarcaderoMemgraph LtdQuestDB Technology IncTeradata
Initial release20081984201720142005
Current release7.2.4, September 2012InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolFlexible 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 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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoR packages
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes 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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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