DBMS > Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Titan vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. Titan vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2003

2013

2003

2012

2009

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

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++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

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
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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