DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hazelcast.com

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Hazelcast

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2019

2014

2008

2011

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

Role-based access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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