DBMS > MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. OrientDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. OrientDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

memgraph.com

orientdb.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

memgraph.com/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Social network pages

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Memgraph Ltd

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Percona

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

2010

2015

1993

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

via In-Memory Engine

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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