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DBMS > Memcached vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza vs. YDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
yanza.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlex KashirinYanzaYandex
Initial release2003202020152019
Current release1.6.27, May 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++any language that supports HTTP callsGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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