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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2009

2019

2014

2016

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes, using Riak Security

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

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

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