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System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb

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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

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
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Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#310	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

rockset.com

www.snowflake.com

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Speedb

Initial release

2015

2019

2014

2020

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license 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

Linux
Windows

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

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Automatic sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

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 datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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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