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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A 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 model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

memgraph.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

memgraph.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

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Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Simer Plaha

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2017

2018

2016

Current release

3.4, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

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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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