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DBMS > BigObject vs. Kingbase vs. Memgraph vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Kingbase vs. Memgraph vs. Vitess

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.kingbase.com.cnmemgraph.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iomemgraph.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Memgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2015199920172013
Current releaseV8.0, August 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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BigObjectKingbaseMemgraphVitess
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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