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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Greenplum vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. NCache

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jFully managed big data interactive analytics platformOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gbase.cngreenplum.orgmemgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Pivotal Software Inc.Memgraph LtdMicrosoftAlachisoft
Initial release20042005201720192005
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.0.0, September 2023cloud service with continuous releases5.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yesyes infosince Version 4.2noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnooptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAzure Active Directory AuthenticationAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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GBaseGreenplumMemgraphMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerNCache
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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