🆚 Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Memcached is much more popular than Microsoft SQL Server.
🌎 Memcached is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Microsoft SQL Server is more popular in the Czech Republic, Russia, and Iran.

Memcached

Microsoft SQL Server

Type

Database technology

About

Memcached is an open-source event-based key-value store that keeps data in memory to deliver very low latency access and high throughput.

It can handle over 200,000 operations per second on fast hardware, uses multi-threading to leverage multiple CPU cores, and applies Least Recently Used cache eviction policy when it runs out of memory.

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft.

It supports Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as its query language, runs on both Windows and Linux platforms, includes features such as Always On Availability Groups, in-memory OLTP, Transparent Data Encryption, and row-level security.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

memcached.org #897,673

microsoft.com/sqlserver/ #3

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Express

Pay-as-you-goStandard$73/core/month
Enterprise$274/core/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Memcached database technology is 9 times more popular than Microsoft SQL Server.

Total websites

Market share

Databases

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Memcached is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Microsoft SQL Server is more popular in the Czech Republic, Russia, and Iran.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

India

Canada

Germany

France

Japan

Italy

Netherlands

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in New Zealand in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Mexico in the Databases category.

🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Databases category.
🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Databases category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Databases category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Memcached is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Microsoft SQL Server is more commonly used on finance and banking, travel, and government and military sites.

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Business

Fashion/Beauty

Blogs/Wiki

Health

Education/Reference

Sports

Entertainment

Internet Services