DBMS > OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1993

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2020

1998

Current release

3.4-12

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
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

C++

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Erlang

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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