DBMS > Dgraph vs. LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.leanxcale.com

memgraph.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

LeanXcale

Memgraph Ltd

Hughes Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

1994

2010

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

through Apache Derby

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

Planned for future releases

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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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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