DBMS > Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Prometheus vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Prometheus vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

prometheus.io

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

8Kdata

Initial release

2003

1989

1984

2015

2016

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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