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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. SAP HANA vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trafodion.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2010

2014

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

yes, via HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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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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