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DBMS > MariaDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TDengine

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NameMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score91.04
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitemariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
www.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarygithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995200320152019
Current release11.3.2, February 20241.6.27, May 2024V13.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC and C++CC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3nonono
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infonot for in-memory storage enginenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authenticationyes
More information provided by the system vendor
MariaDBMemcachedMicrosoft Azure AI SearchTDengine
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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