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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. DuckDB vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	7.44
Rank	#44	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#200	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

duckdb.org

rockset.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

duckdb.org/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Rockset

Mireo

Initial release

2018

2019

2020

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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

yes

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