DBMS > Memcached vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.memcached.org

www.mysql.com

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2003

1995

2014

2020

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

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