DBMS > MariaDB vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

MySQL 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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1993

2009

2010

2020

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

3.4-12

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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