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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. ToroDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

postgis.net

github.com/torodb/server

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

8Kdata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2003

2005

2016

2014

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

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

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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