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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. openGauss vs. SAP HANA

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

memgraph.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

memgraph.com/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Memgraph Ltd

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

Initial release

2003

2017

2019

2010

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

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++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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