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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeSpatial extension of SQLiteA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.singlestore.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.singlestore.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSingleStore Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20031993201320082009
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.4-128.5, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infohash partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnono
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MemcachedOpenQM infoalso called QMSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSpatiaLiteTinkerGraph
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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