DBMS > etcd vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

www.sadasengine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1995

2009

2006

2012

Current release

3.4, August 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

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"

horizontal partitioning

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.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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