DBMS > gStore vs. MonetDB vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. MonetDB vs. Riak TS vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.monetdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

MonetDB BV

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2004

2015

2019

Current release

1.2, November 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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