DBMS > MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

ravendb.net

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

ravendb.net/docs

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Hibernating Rhinos

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

SenX

Initial release

1995

2010

2009

1987

2015

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

5.4, July 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Erlang

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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