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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata

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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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.54
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#317	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	33.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

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

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

2017

2015

1984

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

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++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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