DBMS > Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Description

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

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Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Percona

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2003

2015

2021

2014

2017

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

Key-based authentication

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

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