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DBMS > Kinetica vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.kinetica.commemgraph.comrethinkdb.comwww.risingwave.com/­databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.commemgraph.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperKineticaMemgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RisingWave LabsSimer Plaha
Initial release20122017200920222018
Current release7.1, August 20212.4.1, August 20201.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++C++RustScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryStandard SQL-types and JSONno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C 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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infowith snapshot isolationAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers and Rolesno
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KineticaMemgraphRethinkDBRisingWaveSwayDB
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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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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