DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Memgraph vs. Neo4j vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Memgraph vs. Neo4j vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	44.89
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

memgraph.com

neo4j.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

memgraph.com/docs

neo4j.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Neo4j, Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2017

2007

1993

2013

Current release

5.20, May 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes using Neo4j Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

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

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Over 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

You can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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