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Name

Description

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

Open source in-memory key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

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Score	1.02
Rank	#144	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Website

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Alachisoft

Initial release

2009

2004

Current release

10.3.15, May 2019

4.9, February 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Azure Database for MariaDB: A fully managed, scalable MariaDB relational database with high availability and security built in at no extra cost
MariaDB Managed Service: A customized MariaDB deployment fully managed by the experts at MariaDB in the cloud of your choice. Keeps you up to date with features, upgrades, hotfixes and security patches.

Implementation language

C and C++

C#, C++, .NET

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax (OQL) for searching the cache

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

LINQ
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

yes

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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Competitive advantages

High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Typical application scenarios

Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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NCache enables industries and users including users doing: Fraud Detection, Retail...
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Key customers

Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching for the last 10 years.
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Licensing and pricing models

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