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DBMS > Memcached vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Microsoft Access vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score105.40
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.snowflake.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release2003199220142014
Current release1.6.25, March 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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