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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Memgraph vs. NSDb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Social network pages

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Memgraph Ltd

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2004

2017

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

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

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

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