DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

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

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

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.tarantool.iovictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave LabsVKVictoriaMetrics
Initial release19842009202220082018
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.2.0, December 20221.2, September 20232.10.0, May 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++ErlangRustC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSONstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Open binary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesErlangUDFs in Python or JavaLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "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 infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and RolesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
MaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRiak KVRisingWaveTarantoolVictoriaMetrics
DB-Engines blog posts

Data processing speed and reliability: in-memory synchronous replication
9 November 2021,  Vladimir Perepelytsya, Tarantool (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

SAP Content Server High Availability using Amazon EFS and SUSE | Amazon Web Services
30 December 2020, AWS Blog

Extended Maintenance Commitments Across SAP Solutions
11 August 2020, SAP News

What is SAP S/4HANA?
21 March 2022, TechTarget

Alibaba Cloud Offers Access to SAP Software for Customers
5 June 2018, Alizila

Dear SAP, Why Don't You Make Hana A Success?
28 July 2021, E3-Magazin

provided by Google News

Basho Revamps Riak Open-Source Database
22 September 2023, InformationWeek

A Critique of Resizable Hash Tables: Riak Core & Random Slicing
26 August 2018, InfoQ.com

Riak NoSQL snapped up by Bet365
12 September 2017, ComputerWeekly.com

Basho to Bolster Riak with DB Plug-Ins
5 May 2014, Datanami

Basho Advances NoSQL Riak Enterprise 2.0 With Search, Advanced Data Types
15 September 2014, Data Center Knowledge

provided by Google News

Streaming Databases: Embracing the Convergence of Stream Processing and Databases
17 May 2024, InfoQ.com

RisingWave Cloud Democratizes Event Stream Processing, Making It Affordable at Cloud Scale
27 June 2023, Datanami

Ibis 8 Adds Streaming
5 March 2024, iProgrammer

Building a Formula 1 Streaming Data Pipeline With Kafka and Risingwave
5 September 2023, KDnuggets

As the world ages, cancer cases are projected to rise, hitting some countries like ‘a tidal wave’
4 April 2024, CNN

provided by Google News

Deploying Tarantool Cartridge applications with zero effort (Part 1)
16 December 2019, Хабр

VShard — horizontal scaling in Tarantool
7 March 2019, Хабр

Accelerating PHP connectors for Tarantool using Async, Swoole, and Parallel
18 December 2019, Хабр

provided by Google News

OpenTelemetry Is Too Complicated, VictoriaMetrics Says
1 April 2024, Datanami

KubeCon24: VictoriaMetrics' Simpler Alternative to Prometheus
20 March 2024, The New Stack

VictoriaMetrics Slashes Data Storage Bills by 90% With World's Most Cost-Efficient Monitoring
30 May 2024, businesswire.com

How VictoriaMetrics' open source approach led to mass industry adoption
3 May 2024, Tech.eu

VictoriaMetrics takes organic growth over investor pressure
11 December 2023, The Register

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here