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System Properties Comparison Memgraph vs. NCache vs. Splunk vs. SQLite

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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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

memgraph.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.splunk.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

memgraph.com/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Alachisoft

Splunk Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2005

2003

2000

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

none

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

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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)

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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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantages

Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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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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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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