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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Riak KV vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

swaydb.simer.au

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Simer Plaha

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2003

2009

2018

2012

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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