DBMS > OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Yanza

Initial release

2010

2009

2014

2013

2015

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Erlang

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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