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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. StarRocks vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

rocksdb.org

www.starrocks.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2020

2011

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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