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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

www.mysql.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

1995

2018

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

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

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role-based access control

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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