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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore

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NameKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Manticore SoftwareOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSingleStore Inc.
Initial release201920172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20092013
Current release6.0, February 202310 R1, October 20183.2.0, December 20228.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CErlangC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsuser defined functionsErlangyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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