DBMS > Dolt vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

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

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.93
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Chris Davis

Percona

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2018

2006

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP API
Sockets

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

yes

currently in alpha release

JavaScript

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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