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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Memcached vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server vs. Warp 10

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Object-relational database and reports server

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.memcached.org

github.com/torodb/server

www.valentina-db.net

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

8Kdata

Paradigma Software

SenX

Initial release

2008

2003

2016

1999

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Proprietary protocol

ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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