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System Properties Comparison Kdb vs. Memgraph vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

code.kx.com

memgraph.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Memgraph Ltd

ScyllaDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2015

2000

Current release

3.6, May 2018

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing models

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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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