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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Memgraph vs. OrientDB vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	2.05
Rank	#129	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

memgraph.com/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Social network pages

Developer

CNRS

Memgraph Ltd

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2013

2017

2010

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, Javascript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

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

yes

based on H2

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights for users and roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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