DBMS > Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2017

1995

2005

1984

2012

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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