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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.memcached.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cambridge Semantics

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Alachisoft

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2018

2003

2005

1980

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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