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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

1984

2014

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

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)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

yes, on a single node

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

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

yes

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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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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