DBMS > Rockset vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. searchxml vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Rockset

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2019

2015

2010

2014

Current release

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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