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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.14
Rank	#124	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

rockset.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Rockset

Tobias Oetiker

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2019

1999

2008

2011

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

Numeric data only

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library
Pipes

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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