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DBMS > Memcached vs. SiriDB vs. Valkey

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. SiriDB vs. Valkey

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonValkey infoOpen source key/value datastore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source key/value datastore
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score15.47
Rank#34  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#153  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Websitewww.memcached.orgsiridb.comvalkey.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.siridb.comgithub.com/­valkey-io/­valkey
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalCesbit
Initial release200320172024
Current release1.6.29, June 2024Valkey 8.0.1, October 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoNumeric data
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolsimple rights management via user accounts

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