DBMS > Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

quasar.ai

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

quasardb

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2009

2015

2013

2014

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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