DBMS > RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

vitess.io

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

vitess.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2010

2013

2012

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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