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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Rockset

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2004

2009

2019

2018

2023

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.4.1, August 2020

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

dynamic typing

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

range based

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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