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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgprometheus.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release200320152018
Current release1.6.25, March 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoby FederationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoRole-based access control

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