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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

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

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Spotify

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2022

2013

Current release

1.2, September 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Users and Roles

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