DBMS > Memcached vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2003

1994

1995

2003

2017

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

4.4, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

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

based on RocksDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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