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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

rethinkdb.com

www.risingwave.com/database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

RisingWave Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2009

2022

2014

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

user defined functions

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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

users and table-level permissions

Users and Roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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