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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. Spark SQL

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.memcached.orgmemgraph.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimemgraph.com/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBaseX GmbHDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMemgraph LtdApache Software Foundation
Initial release2007200320172014
Current release11.0, June 20241.6.27, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernoACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissionsno
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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