DBMS > RocksDB vs. SingleStore vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SingleStore vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Tencent

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2014

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Linux

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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