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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. SurrealDB vs. Trafodion

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobilea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgobjectbox.iosqream.comsurrealdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.comsurrealdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesSurrealDB LtdApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20032017201720222014
Current release1.6.27, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022v1.5.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaRustC++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolProprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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