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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Memgraph vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

memgraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

memgraph.com/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

IBM

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2000

1984

2014

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

HP Open VMS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

yes

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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