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DBMS > Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. SurrealDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Riak KV vs. SurrealDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitememgraph.comsurrealdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsurrealdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSurrealDB LtdVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2017200920222011
Current release3.2.0, December 2022v1.1.1, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangRustC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACIDACID
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
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsyes, using Riak Securityyes, based on authentication and database rulesBased on Windows Authentication
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MemgraphRiak KVSurrealDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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