DBMS > CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.memcached.org

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Circonus LLC.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2005

2017

2003

2014

2017

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

1.6.29, June 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.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

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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

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