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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. NebulaGraph vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.nebula-graph.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Vesoft Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2019

1999

2014

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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NebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Social networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customers

Companies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metrics

At our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing models

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NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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