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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB vs. Speedb vs. Trafodion

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsiridb.comwww.speedb.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.siridb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)CesbitSpeedbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20031984201720202014
Current release1.6.27, May 20247.4.1.1, 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP Open VMSLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoNumeric datanoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP 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)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodenoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
MemcachedOracle RdbSiriDBSpeedbTrafodion
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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