DBMS > Memgraph vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

memgraph.com

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

quasardb

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2017

2009

2013

1992

2020

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

ACID

yes

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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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