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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Trafodion

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.34
Rank#157  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.59
Rank#235  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#33  Key-value stores
Score2.72
Rank#97  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#33  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.graphengine.iomemgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticstrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesGitHubLinkedInTwitterDiscordFacebook
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftMemgraph LtdMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162010201720162014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGo.NET and CC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioningSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication using RAFTyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers, roles and permissionsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DgraphGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMemgraphMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseTrafodion
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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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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