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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. PlanetScale vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.09
Rank	#178	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.memcached.org

planetscale.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

planetscale.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

PlanetScale

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2003

2020

1987

2019

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at shard level

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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