DBMS > FatDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

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Rank	#378	Overall
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
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Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

boilerbay.com

www.memcached.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

FatCloud

Boiler Bay Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2002

2003

2015

2013

Current release

4.0

1.6.25, March 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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

Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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