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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. TimesTen vs. Virtuoso

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

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Score	25.97
Rank	#28	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	5.19
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.40
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#119	Overall
	#20	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#3	Native XML DBMS
	#59	Relational DBMS
	#4	RDF stores
	#10	Search engines

Website

www.memcached.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

OpenLink Software

Initial release

2003

1984

1998

Current release

1.6.9, November 2020

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

08.03.3316, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

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

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Virtuoso PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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