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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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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.

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2017

1984

2010

2018

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

yes

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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