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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. RethinkDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

rethinkdb.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2003

2009

2006

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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