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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SurrealDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1017.80
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.01
Rank	#181	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Score	1.40
Rank	#153	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

surrealdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

surrealdb.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

SurrealDB Ltd

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1995

2019

2022

2003

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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