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DBMS > Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata Aster vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SAP IQ vs. Teradata Aster vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP, formerly SybaseTeradataVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2009199420052018
Current release3.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyesR packagesno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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