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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Rank	#94	Overall
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Rank	#87	Overall
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Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

memgraph.com

www.pinecone.io

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

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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

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

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

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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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