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DBMS > Datomic vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memgraph vs. SQream DB vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memgraph vs. SQream DB vs. Ultipa

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4ja GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­spannermemgraph.comsqream.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comwww.ultipa.com/­document
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCognitectGoogleMemgraph LtdSQream TechnologiesUltipa
Initial release20122017201720172019
Current release1.0.7180, July 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions in Python
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions
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DatomicGoogle Cloud SpannerMemgraphSQream DBUltipa
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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