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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Memgraph vs. PieCloudDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

OpenPie

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

Current release

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

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

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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