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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Dgraph vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

dgraph.io/docs

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2016

2017

2013

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

ANSI SQL-92

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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