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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Riak KV vs. TerarkDB vs. VoltDB

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NameNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesByteDance, originally TerarkVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2013200920162010
Current release3.2.0, December 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++Java, C++
Server operating systemshosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
C++ API
Java API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
C++
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLErlangnoJava
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infotunable commit protocolnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes, using Riak SecuritynoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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