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DBMS > Riak KV vs. Solr vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Solr vs. TiDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A 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 indexesSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitesolr.apache.orgpingcap.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stabledocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software FoundationPingCAP, Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release2009200620162018
Current release3.2.0, December 20229.6.0, April 20248.0.0, March 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaGo, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
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
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
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 infoStored proceduresErlangJava pluginsnono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACIDno
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Riak KVSolrTiDBVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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