DBMS > MaxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. Tarantool vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Riak KV vs. Tarantool vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

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

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.tarantool.io

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Amazon Web Services

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1984

2021

2009

2008

2018

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Open binary protocol

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Synchronous replication

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual 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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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

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