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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Neo4j vs. OpenTSDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgneo4j.comopentsdb.netwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikineo4j.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalNeo4j, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2003200720112017
Current release1.6.25, March 20245.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Telnet API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlernono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)noRole-based access control
More information provided by the system vendor
MemcachedNeo4jOpenTSDBTigerGraph
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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