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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. RDFox vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Oxford Semantic Technologies

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2022

2014

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

RDF schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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

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

Roles, resources, and access types

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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