DBMS > Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

www.speedb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Speedb

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2003

2013

2020

2011

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, 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

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

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