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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2003

2015

2014

1987

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

1.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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