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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmemgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGoogleMemgraph LtdMicrosoftTimescale
Initial release20142017201620052017
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++C++CC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes 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 infousing MemoryDByesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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LovefieldMemgraphMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePostGISTimescaleDB
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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