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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	10.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

couchdb.apache.org

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2015

2005

2017

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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