DBMS > H2 vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.h2database.com

www.memcached.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2005

2003

2010

2013

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

V12

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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