DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#388	Overall
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Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2015

2014

2020

2018

Current release

0.5, April 2021

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

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