DBMS > JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. TypeDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. TypeDB vs. WakandaDB

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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

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

typedb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Vaticle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2018

2013

2019

2016

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

yes

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