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DBMS > Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector 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
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikilearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoft8KdataParadigma Software
Initial release2003201520161999
Current release1.6.25, March 2024V15.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
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 authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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