DBMS > Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

column-oriented

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

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.memcached.org

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2003

2012

1994

2014

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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