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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.rockset.com

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Rockset

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2005

2019

2013

2014

2011

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

8.5, January 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Automatic sharding

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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.

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 database

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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