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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. StarRocks vs. VelocityDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBMySQL 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 typeAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiterockset.comwww.singlestore.comwww.starrocks.iovelocitydb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.singlestore.comdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRocksetSingleStore Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023VelocityDB IncQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20192013202020112009
Current release8.5, January 20242.5.3, March 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, GoC++, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinuxAny that supports .NETAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datedynamic typingyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoingestion from XML files supportednononono
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
.NetJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infohash partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsBased on Windows Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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RocksetSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLStarRocksVelocityDBYaacomo
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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