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DBMS > Kingbase vs. OceanBase vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. OceanBase vs. Rockset

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#104  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#202  Overall
#34  Document stores
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnen.oceanbase.comrockset.com
Technical documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupRockset
Initial release199920102019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20214.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using Paxosyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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