DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2008

1995

2019

2014

2008

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

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