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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2018

2013

2019

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Administrators, Users, Groups

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

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