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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Memcached vs. Prometheus vs. YDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.memcached.orgprometheus.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalYandex
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200320152019
Current release11.2, May 20221.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoby FederationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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