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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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

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Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	3.07
Rank	#90	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#73	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

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

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2010

2009

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Erlang

Triggers

Hooks

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"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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 roles; record level security configurable

yes, using Riak Security

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