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System Properties Comparison openGauss vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

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

Website

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Huawei and openGauss community

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2019

2013

2014

2011

Current release

3.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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