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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPerconaByteDance, originally TerarkOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142003201520161998
Current release2.1.12, February 20171.6.25, March 20243.4.10-2.10, November 201711 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolproprietary protocol using JSONC++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptnoPL/SQL
TriggersUsing read-only observersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes infovia In-Memory Engineyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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