DBMS > Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Website

memgraph.com

www.postgres-xl.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

2013

2010

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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