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

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

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

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	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

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

Social network pages

Developer

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

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Trino Software Foundation

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1984

2009

2008

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2018

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

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, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Open binary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

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.

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

depending on connected data-source

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

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

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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