DBMS > Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.sqream.com

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

SQream Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

2017

2014

2012

2017

1984

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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

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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