DBMS > Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2019

1992

2010

2014

2001

Current release

17, July 2015

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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