DBMS > Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.splunk.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

surrealdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Splunk Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

2021

2008

2003

2022

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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