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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.memcached.orgpostgis.netravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHibernating Rhinos
Initial release1999200320052010
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.6.25, March 20243.4.2, February 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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