DBMS > etcd vs. MonetDB vs. Riak TS vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. MonetDB vs. Riak TS vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.05
Rank	#53	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.monetdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

MonetDB BV

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2004

2015

2016

Current release

3.4, August 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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