DBMS > Memgraph vs. MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Solr vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Solr vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.mongodb.com

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

solr.apache.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

MongoDB, Inc

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2017

2009

2015

2006

1984

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

9.6.1, May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java plugins

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

optimistic locking

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, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

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