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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

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Score	15.47
Rank	#34	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.memcached.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2003

2019

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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