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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

prometheus.io

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

Technical documentation

prometheus.io/docs

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Rocket Software

Initial release

2015

2009

1985

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

optional

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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, using Riak Security

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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