DBMS > KeyDB vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tarantool vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Tarantool vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

www.tarantool.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2019

2013

2008

2001

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

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

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Open binary protocol

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java, SQL

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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