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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132013201420171987
Current release8.11.4, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptnouser defined functions in Pythonyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesDocument is locked during a transactionnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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