DBMS > Memgraph vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

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

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

1987

2014

2022

2018

Current release

16.0

v1.5.0, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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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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