DBMS > Memcached vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.memcached.org

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2003

2012

2000

2011

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Public Domain

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

except by serializing a db to a file

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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