DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.greptime.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Arcade Data

Greptime Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2021

2022

2003

2014

2017

Current release

September 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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 query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

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

relationship in graphs

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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