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System Properties Comparison RisingWave vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2022

2013

2019

2011

2016

Current release

1.2, September 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users and Roles

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

Access rights for users and roles

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