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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Memcached vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.memcached.org

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2003

2022

2014

2016

Current release

3.3 July 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source 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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users and Roles

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

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