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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

IBM

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2000

1984

2014

2008

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

HP Open VMS

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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