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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. mSQL vs. RisingWave vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.risingwave.com/database

rockset.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hughes Technologies

RisingWave Labs

Rockset

Initial release

2008

1994

2022

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

4.4, October 2021

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users and Roles

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

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Market metrics

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