DBMS > etcd vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. Sqrrl vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB vs. Sqrrl vs. YottaDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	7.03
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

sqrrl.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1991

2013

2012

2001

Current release

3.4, August 2019

5.7

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

optimistic locking

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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