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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

druid.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Konrad von Backstrom

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.8, December 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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 for querying

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

using RocksDB

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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

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