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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Sphinx

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverravendb.netsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTravendb.net/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftPerconaHibernating RhinosSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20032015200820102001
Current release1.6.25, March 2024V18.0.36-28, 20245.4, July 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C#C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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