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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.54
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#327	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

terminusdb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

DataChemist Ltd.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2017

2018

2013

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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