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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

boilerbay.com

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Boiler Bay Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2002

2003

1989

Current release

4.0

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

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

Java

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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