DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Google

InterSystems

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2008

2018

2022

2013

2010

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

1.2, September 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

yes

ACID

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Users and Roles

Access rights for users and roles

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