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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. OpenQM vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SAP

formerly Sybase

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2003

1993

1992

1999

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

3.4-12

17, July 2015

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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.

yes

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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