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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SQL.JS vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

rockset.com

sql.js.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Rockset

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2019

2012

1987

2011

2019

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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