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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
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Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.voltdb.com

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

2010

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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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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