DBMS > H2 vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2database.com

opentsdb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Thomas Mueller

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2005

2011

2009

2011

2016

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
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#
Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and 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

based on HBase

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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