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DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebird vs. Memgraph vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebird vs. Memgraph vs. RavenDB

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.firebirdsql.orgmemgraph.comravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmemgraph.com/­docsravendb.net/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDataStaxFirebird FoundationMemgraph LtdHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20112000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172010
Current release6.8, April 20205.0.0, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissionsAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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