DBMS > etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. InfluxDB vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.7.6, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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