DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Hazelcast

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2015

2013

2010

1984

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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