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DBMS > Memgraph vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

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NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAnalytics Platform for Big DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitememgraph.compostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comwww.splunk.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.timescale.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdSequoiadb Ltd.Splunk Inc.Timescale
Initial release20172005201320032017
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MemgraphPostGISSequoiadbSplunkTimescaleDB
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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