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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgquasar.airocksdb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.com
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalquasardbFacebook, Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20022003200920132017
Current release4.01.6.25, March 20243.14.1, January 20248.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes infointeger and binarynoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infowith tagsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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