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System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.memcached.org

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2003

2014

2018

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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

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