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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

rethinkdb.com

rockset.com

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

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

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2019

2008

2019

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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

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