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DBMS > Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. SQream DB vs. Vitess

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NameMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.memcached.orgwww.snowflake.comsphinxsearch.comsqream.comvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.sqream.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSnowflake Computing Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.SQream TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20032014200120172013
Current release1.6.27, May 20243.5.1, February 20232022.1.6, December 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes, 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.yes
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Pythonyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
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) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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