DBMS > Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Rockset

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2019

2013

2014

2011

2013

Current release

8.5, January 2024

7.x

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

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++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

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

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

Based on Windows Authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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