DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kinetica.com

www.memcached.org

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Kinetica

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2018

2012

2003

2019

2010

Current release

0.8, December 2018

7.1, August 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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

yes

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