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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.89
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	136.53
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

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

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