DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Spotify

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2009

2013

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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