DBMS > Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. SQLite vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk vs. SQLite vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Rank	#98	Overall
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Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.splunk.com

www.sqlite.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Tobias Oetiker

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2017

1999

2003

2000

2016

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

in-process shared library
Pipes

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

Multi-source replication

none

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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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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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

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