DBMS > Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

2013

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes, using Riak Security

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

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