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

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

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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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
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.snowflake.comsqream.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20032015201420172022
Current release1.6.29, June 20243.0.0, September 20222022.1.6, December 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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 (Node.js)
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlanguser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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