DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Sqrrl vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Sqrrl vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

DataStax 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.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

memgraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sqrrl.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

memgraph.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Social network pages

Developer

DataStax

Memgraph Ltd

Amazon Web Services

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2011

2017

2021

2012

2016

Current release

6.8, April 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users, roles and permissions

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

DataStax 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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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting 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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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications 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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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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You can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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