DBMS > Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. Netezza vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. Netezza vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

memgraph.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Memgraph Ltd

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2003

2017

2000

1992

2014

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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