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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

clickhouse.com/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Clickhouse Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2016

2003

2012

Current release

v20, April 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

no

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

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C#

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

no

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