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DBMS > Memcached vs. SpaceTime vs. Splunk vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. SpaceTime vs. Splunk vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 cachingSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Analytics Platform for Big DataTime Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.splunk.comyanza.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMireoSplunk Inc.YanzaYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20032020200320152017
Current release1.6.27, May 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP callsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyesyes infoTimer and event basedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFixed-grid hypercubesShardingnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replicationnoneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyesAccess rights for users and rolesnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
MemcachedSpaceTimeSplunkYanzaYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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