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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.54
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Mireo

Initial release

2017

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

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

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

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

yes

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