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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.02
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Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2016

2021

2011

2009

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 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

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

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

optional

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

You can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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