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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB vs. Titan

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

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#359  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgrocksdb.orgsqream.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.sqream.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalFacebook, Inc.SQream TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20022003201320172012
Current release4.01.6.25, March 20248.11.4, April 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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