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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

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

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

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

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

TempoIQ

Initial release

2010

1995

2019

2008

2012

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

simple authentication-based access control

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