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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Memgraph Ltd

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1984

2017

2003

2000

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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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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