DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.citusdata.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

2013

Current release

8.1, December 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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