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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	7.64
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2015

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.7.5, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

none

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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