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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Kinetica vs. Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.kinetica.commemgraph.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.kinetica.commemgraph.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperActian CorporationKineticaMemgraph LtdRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2012201719932014
Current release11.2, May 20227.1, August 20213.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++C and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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IngresKineticaMemgraphOpenQM infoalso called QMQuestDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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