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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.28
Rank	#285	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#97	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#160	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	19.62
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#191	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

www.leanxcale.com

memgraph.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

postgis.net

vitess.io

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

vitess.io/docs

Social network pages

Developer

LeanXcale

Memgraph Ltd

Hughes Technologies

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2015

2017

1994

2005

2013

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

yes

through Apache Derby

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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