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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Neo4j vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 offeringsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score42.68
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgneo4j.comwww.snowflake.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikineo4j.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalNeo4j, Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Alessandro FurieriSQream Technologies
Initial release20032007201420082017
Current release1.6.29, June 20245.23, August 20245.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
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
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsuser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlerno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j Fabricyesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
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 onlyyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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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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