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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.64
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

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

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2015

Current release

3.4, August 2019

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
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, limited

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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