DBMS > RocksDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2013

2020

2014

2022

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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