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DBMS > Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Titan

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsurrealdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPerconaSurrealDB LtdAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2003201520222012
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++RustJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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