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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.54
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

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