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DBMS > Kingbase vs. Riak TS vs. StarRocks vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Riak TS vs. StarRocks vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.starrocks.iowww.timescale.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Timescale8Kdata
Initial release19992015202020172016
Current releaseV8.0, August 20213.0.0, September 20222.5.3, March 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaErlangC++, JavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes, limitedyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
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
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlanguser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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