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System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Memgraph vs. Realm vs. TerarkDB

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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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
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Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

memgraph.com

realm.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

realm.io/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Social network pages

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Memgraph Ltd

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2008

2017

2014

2016

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

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

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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