DBMS > Memgraph vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. NCache vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

memgraph.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Alachisoft

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2005

2008

2014

2003

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

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

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual 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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users, roles and permissions

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios

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

Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

You can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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