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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2003

2017

2013

2016

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

9.2.1, May 2024

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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