DBMS > Rockset vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Rockset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2019

2013

2014

2008

2011

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

simple password-based access control

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

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