DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Event Store Limited

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2006

2016

2017

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.10, January 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

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Licensing and pricing models

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