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DBMS > Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiterockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetAlessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009201920082013
Current release3.2.0, December 20225.0.0, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedserver-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenodynamic typingyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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