DBMS > Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sequoiadb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2013

1987

2013

2018

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

16.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

proprietary protocol using JSON

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

yes

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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 journaling

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

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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