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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. MonetDB vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	21.31
Rank	#34	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	2.40
Rank	#132	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#91	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.monetdb.org

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

MonetDB BV

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2003

2004

1984

Current release

1.6.21, June 2023

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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