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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Riak TS vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.00
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Score	0.23
Rank	#283	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#141	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

crate.io

riak.com/products/riak-ts

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Crate

Basho Technologies

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

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++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript and Erlang

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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