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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	2.54
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#272	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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