DBMS > Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

vitess.io/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Alex Kashirin

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2009

2020

2013

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

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#
C++
Python

C++

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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