DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

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Description

In-memory caching system

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

Primary database model

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Website

cachelot.io

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2023

1983

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

PHP

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

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