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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.mysql.comrocksdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunFacebook, Inc.SiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release19952013201020141999
Current release8.4.0, April 20249.2.1, May 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Java API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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