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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. Rockset vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

rockset.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.rockset.com

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Rockset

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

1995

2019

2013

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

2.5, January 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

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 and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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