DBMS > KeyDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2019

1992

2014

2006

Current release

17, July 2015

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

dynamic typing

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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