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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. ToroDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-servergithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATEST
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOraclePercona8Kdata
Initial release2003201120082016
Current release1.6.27, May 202423.3, December 20238.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptionalyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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