DBMS > Memcached vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

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	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.memcached.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

github.com/torodb/server

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

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

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

8Kdata

Initial release

2003

1994

2007

2004

2016

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

4.4, October 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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