DBMS > Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2009

2014

2011

2003

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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#
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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.

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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