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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Memgraph vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmemgraph.compouchdb.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresmemgraph.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperActian CorporationMemgraph LtdApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720122009
Current release11.2, May 20227.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScript
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsnoyes infousers and table-level permissions
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IngresMemgraphPouchDBRethinkDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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