DBMS > CouchDB vs. Memcached vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Memcached vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.memcached.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2005

2003

1995

2007

2003

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
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

.Net
C++
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 database

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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