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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Memgraph vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.02
Rank	#50	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.71
Rank	#97	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#189	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

memgraph.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

memgraph.com/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Memgraph Ltd

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2005

2017

2022

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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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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