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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.09
Rank#105  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score2.69
Rank#115  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitememgraph.comquestdb.iowww.snowflake.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdQuestDB Technology IncSnowflake Computing Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2017201420142014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationACID for single-table writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MemgraphQuestDBSnowflakeTrafodion
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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