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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. TinkerGraph vs. Tkrzw

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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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

memgraph.com

www.postgres-xl.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2020

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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

TinkerPop 3

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

Groovy
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

MVCC

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

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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