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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

newdatabase.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2003

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.6.27, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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