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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. TiDB vs. Tigris vs. VelocityDB

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NameRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 typeTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
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Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiterockset.comwww.singlestore.compingcap.comwww.tigrisdata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.singlestore.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.tigrisdata.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperRocksetSingleStore Inc.PingCAP, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20192013201620222011
Current release8.5, January 20248.1.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilitiesTiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageC++C++, GoGo, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux info64 bit version requiredLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
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 keysyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infohash partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesBased on Windows Authentication
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RocksetSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTiDBTigrisVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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