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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2017

2015

2013

2019

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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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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