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DBMS > Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. OpenTSDB vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.memcached.orgopentsdb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTransaction Software GmbHJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2003201119872019
Current release1.6.27, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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