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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2003

1984

2017

2014

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

simple rights management via user accounts

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

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