DBMS > Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Speedb

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

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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)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Speedb

Initial release

2003

2013

2020

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Licensing and pricing models

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