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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Memgraph vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

memgraph.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2017

2014

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

RDF schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Roles, resources, and access types

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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