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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. NuoDB vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

memgraph.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2013

2012

2013

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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