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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Splice Machine

Initial release

2010

2013

2019

2014

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Java

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

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

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