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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. SQream DB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRiak 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 dataPort of SQLite to JavaScripta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.snowflake.comsql.js.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSQream Technologies
Initial release20032015201420122017
Current release1.6.27, May 20243.0.0, September 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C 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
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlanguser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factoryesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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