DBMS > RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2019

1992

2003

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

depending on connected data-source

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

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

SQL standard access control

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