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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Newts vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

opennms.github.io/newts

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OpenNMS Group

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2003

2014

2010

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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