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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.teradata.com

velocitydb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.teradata.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Teradata

VelocityDB Inc

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

1984

2011

2001

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted
Linux

Any that supports .NET

Docker
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

.Net

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

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++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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