DBMS > Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2003

2005

1992

2000

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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