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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Neo4j vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Neo4j vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelEvent StoreKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsneo4j.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsneo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftNeo4j, Inc.Transwarp
Initial release2012200320162007
Current release21.2, February 20211.6.27, May 20245.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyes using Neo4j Fabrichorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes
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EventStoreDBMemcachedMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNeo4jTranswarp StellarDB
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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