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DBMS > Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  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 dataAnalytics Platform for Big Dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score133.72
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.snowflake.comwww.splunk.comsqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.Splunk Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20032015201420032017
Current release1.6.29, June 20243.0.0, September 20222022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.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
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlanguser defined functionsyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storedyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
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) protocolnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and roles

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