DBMS > Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Rockset

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2019

2013

2014

2019

Current release

8.5, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Import of XML data possible

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

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