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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. Memgraph vs. Realm

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comduckdb.orgmemgraph.comrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comduckdb.org/­docsmemgraph.com/­docsrealm.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectMemgraph LtdRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20152012201820172014
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction Functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers, roles and permissionsyes
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BigObjectDatomicDuckDBMemgraphRealm
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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