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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. Riak KV

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score93.21
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
mariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
memgraph.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
mariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarymemgraph.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Memgraph LtdOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199520172009
Current release3.4, August 201911.3.2, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3Erlang
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes inforelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infowith MEMORY storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsyes, using Riak Security
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etcdMariaDBMemgraphRiak KV
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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