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DBMS > Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20032013199219982018
Current release1.6.27, May 20249.2.1, May 202417, July 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlPL/SQLno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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