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DBMS > Memgraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

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NameMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitememgraph.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2017199220012016
Current release17, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
More information provided by the system vendor
MemgraphSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSphinxTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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