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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Rockset

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2019

2008

2000

2013

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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