DBMS > gStore vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

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

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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