DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. OushuDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. OushuDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

boilerbay.com

www.memcached.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.oushu.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oushu

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2002

2003

2013

2019

Current release

4.0

1.6.27, May 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary protocol

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

C
C++

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

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