DBMS > RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. StarRocks vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

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

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

Forked from Apache Doris

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2014

2020

1984

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.3, June 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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