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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB vs. Valentina Server vs. Warp 10

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports serverTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.valentina-db.netwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSphinx Technologies Inc.8KdataParadigma SoftwareSenX
Initial release20032001201619992015
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolProprietary protocolODBCHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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