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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

prometheus.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2017

2015

2003

2000

2019

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

by Federation

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

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