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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FatDB vs. Memcached vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queriesHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.memcached.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.xtdb.com/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperRackspaceFatCloudDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalJuxt Ltd.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20132012200320192017
Current release1.6.27, May 20241.19, September 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#CClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Linux
OS X
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation formatyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calciteyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, each node contains all dataBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDByes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodFatDBMemcachedXTDB infoformerly named CruxYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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