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DBMS > Memcached vs. NSDb vs. Tarantool vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. NSDb vs. Tarantool vs. TimesTen

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgnsdb.iowww.tarantool.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikinsdb.io/­Architecturewww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVKOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2003201720081998
Current release1.6.29, June 20242.10.0, May 2022Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
macOS
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Open binary protocolODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoUsing Apache Luceneyes, write ahead loggingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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