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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

vertica.com/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

SAP

Teradata

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2017

2010

1984

2005

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

Hashing

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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 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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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