DBMS > Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2003

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2019

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

10 R1, October 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic 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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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