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DBMS > Graphite vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. Vitess

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.memcached.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbvitess.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPerconaOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20062003201520092013
Current release1.6.27, May 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20173.2.0, December 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary protocolproprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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 infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptErlangyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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