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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Search engine info

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.

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Score	25.84
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	443.48
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

www.memcached.org

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.mongodb.com/manual

Developer

Danga Interactive info

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2003

2009

Current release

1.6.0, March 2020

4.2.8, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

BSD license

Open Source info

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free info

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript info

inofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure info

inofficial driver
ColdFusion info

inofficial driver
D info

inofficial driver
Dart info

inofficial driver
Delphi info

inofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy info

inofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp info

inofficial driver
Lua info

inofficial driver
MatLab info

inofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell info

inofficial driver
Prolog info

inofficial driver
Python
R info

inofficial driver
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk info

inofficial driver

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Master-slave replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts info

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts info

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile (The Weather...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

70 million downloads (growing at more than 30 thousand downloads per day). 15,000+...
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Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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