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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server

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Name

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenPie

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2003

1995

2013

1999

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

2.1, January 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

ODBC

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

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

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

Eventual 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

Document is locked during a transaction

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 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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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