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DBMS > Memcached vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB vs. Yanza

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.memcached.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­torodb/­serveryanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC8KdataYanza
Initial release20032009201120162015
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageCErlangC#Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
WindowsAll OS with a Java 7 VMWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idno
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 indexesnorestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnono
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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