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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Memgraph vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

memgraph.com/docs

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2010

2013

Current release

5.4, July 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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