DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Alex Kashirin

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

2010

2020

2013

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.5, April 2021

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

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

SQLScript, R

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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