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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Graph Engine vs. Memgraph vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.graphengine.io

memgraph.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

memgraph.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

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Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Microsoft

Memgraph Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Planned for future releases

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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