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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiravendb.net/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHibernating RhinosAlex KashirinByteDance, originally TerarkTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20032010202020161987
Current release1.6.25, March 20245.4, July 20220.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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