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DBMS > Riak KV vs. Tarantool vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Tarantool vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. YugabyteDB

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.tarantool.iovictoriametrics.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVKVictoriaMetricsYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2009200820182017
Current release3.2.0, December 20222.10.0, May 2022v1.91, May 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Open binary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
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
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Synchronous replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
yes
More information provided by the system vendor
Riak KVTarantoolVictoriaMetricsYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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