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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Vertica vs. VoltDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

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

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

www.voltdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

vertica.com/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

VoltDB Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2009

2011

2005

2010

2019

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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

C#
Java

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Key customers

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