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DBMS > RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SurrealDB vs. VoltDB

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.21
Rank#83  Overall
#12  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Score1.21
Rank#164  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgsurrealdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.SurrealDB LtdVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201320222010
Current release9.4.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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