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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. NCache vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitememgraph.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachequasar.airethinkdb.com
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMemgraph LtdAlachisoftquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20082017200520092009
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.3.3, April 20243.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBolt protocol
Cypher query language
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoNotificationsnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissionsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissions
More information provided by the system vendor
DrizzleMemgraphNCacheQuasardbRethinkDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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