DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. MariaDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. MariaDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2019

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1703

11.3.2, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages with LDAP bindings

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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