DBMS > Derby vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

1997

2017

2014

2009

1984

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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