DBMS > Kingbase vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Rockset

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2019

2010

2013

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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 and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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