DBMS > Memcached vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.mysql.com

www.openpie.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenPie

Sybase, SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2003

1995

1993

2018

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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