DBMS > OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.singlestore.com

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

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.singlestore.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SingleStore Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1993

2009

2013

2020

2014

Current release

3.4-12

3.2.0, December 2022

8.5, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Go

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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