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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Citus vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memgraph

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.citusdata.comdgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storememgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.citusdata.comdgraph.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storememgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAerospikeDgraph Labs, Inc.IBMMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20122010201620172017
Current release7.1, May 20248.1, December 20182.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCGoC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication via RaftActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafCitusDgraphIBM Db2 Event StoreMemgraph
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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