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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. OceanBase vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.memcached.orgen.oceanbase.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikien.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20032010202020012011
Current release1.6.27, May 20244.3.0, April 20243.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++C#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Fixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using PaxosReal-time block device replication (DRBD)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyesnono

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