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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Key-value store

RDF store

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Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2003

2007

2004

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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