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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Realm

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikirealm.io/­docs
DeveloperKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201220032014
Current release7.1, August 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes

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