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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Kingbase vs. LevelDB vs. Memcached vs. searchxml

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.memcached.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.GoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20021999201120032015
Current release4.0V8.0, August 20211.23, February 20211.6.25, March 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesnonoyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnonomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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