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System Properties Comparison Rockset vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess vs. XTDB

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NameRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiterockset.comwww.timescale.comvitess.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.timescale.comvitess.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRocksetTimescaleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2019201720132019
Current release2.15.0, May 202415.0.2, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CGoClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datedynamic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 supportedyesno
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infowith proprietary extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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