DBMS > Riak TS vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2019

1994

2014

2016

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

full support since version 6.6

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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