DBMS > Memcached vs. Netezza vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Netezza vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

IBM

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Initial release

2003

2000

1994

2017

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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