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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. OpenQM vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2003

1993

2015

1993

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.4-12

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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