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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
RDF storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#70  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#8  Search engines
Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.progress.com/­marklogicrdf4j.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleMarkLogic Corp.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20082014200120042017
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.1.12, February 201711.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92noSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.Using read-only observersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoRole-based access control

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