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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

1993

2011

2013

Current release

3.4-12

23.3, December 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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 DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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