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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datomic vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.datomic.com

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.datomic.com

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.nuodb.com

Social network pages

Developer

Franz Inc.

Cognitect

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2004

2012

2017

1989

2013

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

Transaction Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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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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