DBMS > mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

2019

2020

Current release

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

dynamic typing

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.

can be achieved using .NET

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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

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