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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.gbase.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Initial release

2015

2004

2021

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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