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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

memgraph.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

1993

2004

2013

2019

Current release

3.4-12

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

with some exceptions

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

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 storage is supported as well

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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