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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. ObjectBox vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

objectbox.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

ObjectBox Limited

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2003

2017

2020

2010

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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