DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

memgraph.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Social network pages

Developer

Microsoft

Memgraph Ltd

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2010

2017

2009

2014

2003

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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