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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PieCloudDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.openpie.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

OpenPie

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2003

2016

2011

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

2.1, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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