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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Rockset vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rockset.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rockset.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Rockset

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2017

2014

2019

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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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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