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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

splicemachine.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splice Machine

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2009

2014

2022

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

3.1, March 2021

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Java

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"

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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