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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. MySQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. Realm

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.mysql.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

realm.io

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

realm.io/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2015

1995

2014

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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