DBMS > Drizzle vs. Linter vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Linter vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. Quasardb

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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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

linter.ru

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

memgraph.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

memgraph.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

relex.ru

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Memgraph Ltd

quasardb

Initial release

2008

1990

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

2009

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

11.3.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

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

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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