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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

McObject

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2001

2003

2013

2017

Current release

8.2, 2021

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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