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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Social network pages

Developer

Altibase

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

1999

2017

2013

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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