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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. VoltDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.46
Rank#159  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20032010
Current release1.6.25, March 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageCJava, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava
Triggersnono
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 functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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