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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. openGauss vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Huawei and openGauss community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

2019

2014

2022

Current release

3.0, March 2022

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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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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