DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memgraph vs. OushuDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Memgraph vs. OushuDB vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

memgraph.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

memgraph.com/docs

www.oushu.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Oushu

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2017

2013

2018

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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 (GQL)

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

yes

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 journaling

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Role-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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Licensing and pricing models

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