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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. RisingWave

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRisingWave Labs
Initial release20032022
Current release1.6.25, March 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoStandard SQL-types and JSON
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
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and Roles

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