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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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

Score	1.42
Rank	#161	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

victoriametrics.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

VictoriaMetrics

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2018

2019

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

v1.91, May 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

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