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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. OpenQM vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx vs. Ultipa

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NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
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Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
Websitememgraph.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.sequoiadb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.ultipa.com/­document
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSequoiadb Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Ultipa
Initial release20171993201320012019
Current release3.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple password-based access controlno
More information provided by the system vendor
MemgraphOpenQM infoalso called QMSequoiadbSphinxUltipa
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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