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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. MySQL vs. RisingWave vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.63
Rank	#232	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.mysql.com

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

RisingWave Labs

SAP

Initial release

2019

1995

2022

2010

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

1.2, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

UDFs in Python or Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and Roles

yes

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