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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Memcached vs. NCache vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	18.08
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Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
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Score	2.34
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	#21	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.memcached.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Alachisoft

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2003

2005

2012

2000

Current release

3.4, August 2019

1.6.27, May 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Proprietary protocol

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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