DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Memgraph vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YugabyteDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitememgraph.comquasar.aiwww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdquasardbTimescaleVictoriaMetricsYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20172009201720182017
Current release3.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024v1.91, May 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
YugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageC and C++C++CGoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
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 changesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
MemgraphQuasardbTimescaleDBVictoriaMetricsYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
» more
YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
» more
Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
» more
PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
» more
Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
» more
Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
» more
Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
» more
Apache 2.0 license for the database
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
MemgraphQuasardbTimescaleDBVictoriaMetricsYugabyteDB
Recent citations in the news

Enhance Your Network Analysis with the Power of a Graph DB
4 May 2024, Towards Data Science

Graph database company Memgraph raises $9.34M
5 October 2021, VentureBeat

Top Open Source Graph Databases
3 June 2024, MarkTechPost

Croatian graph database startup Memgraph raises €8M with Microsoft as key investor, plans to boost R&D
20 October 2021, The Recursive

London-based Memgraph raises over €8 million in seed funding to provide Streaming Graph Algorithms to the masses
5 October 2021, EU-Startups

provided by Google News

NVIDIA to Present Innovations at Hot Chips That Boost Data Center Performance and Energy Efficiency
23 August 2024, NVIDIA Blog

Record quasar is most luminous object in the universe
20 February 2024, EarthSky

When a Quasar Remote Access Tool Falls Into the Wrong Hands
23 February 2024, darktrace.com

Hubble Unexpectedly Finds Double Quasar in Distant Universe
5 April 2023, Science@NASA

Data Release 1: The UVES Spectral Quasar Absorption Database (SQUAD)
8 March 2019, ESO.org

provided by Google News

General availability: Latest version of the TimeScaleDB extension on Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
8 May 2024, Microsoft

Timescale Acquires PopSQL to Bring a Modern, Collaborative SQL GUI to PostgreSQL Developers
4 April 2024, PR Newswire

TimescaleDB Is a Vector Database Now, Too
25 September 2023, Datanami

PostgreSQL is Now Faster than Pinecone, 75% Cheaper, with New Open Source Extensions
11 June 2024, PR Newswire

Understanding Hyperfunctions in TimescaleDB
11 August 2021, CDOTrends

provided by Google News

Open source biz promises to slash bills with observability-as-a-service in the cloud
20 August 2024, The Register

VictoriaMetrics Cloud promises five times cheaper database monitoring
20 August 2024, Techzine Europe

KubeCon24: VictoriaMetrics’ Simpler Alternative to Prometheus
20 March 2024, The New Stack

OpenTelemetry Is Too Complicated, VictoriaMetrics Says
1 April 2024, Datanami

Green coding - VictoriaMetrics: The efficiency vs complexity trade-off
15 May 2024, ComputerWeekly.com

provided by Google News

YugabyteDB Evolves PostgreSQL to a Distributed Architecture for Modern, Cloud-Native Applications
19 September 2024, Business Wire

YugabyteDB evolves into a distributed PostgreSQL database for apps that need resilience and scale
19 September 2024, SiliconANGLE News

YugabyteDB 2.19 gets new PostgreSQL-compatibility features
19 September 2024, InfoWorld

YugabyteDB Becomes First Distributed SQL Database Vendor to Complete CIS Benchmark
1 February 2024, Datanami

Simplifying cloud-native app development with Yugabyte
2 August 2024, IMDA

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Present your product here