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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.snowflake.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS GroupOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20032014201520142022
Current release1.6.27, May 20243.0.0, September 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaErlangRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnonorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitedyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlanguser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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