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DBMS > Riak KV vs. Tkrzw vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. Tkrzw vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YugabyteDB

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesHigh-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 indexesKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitedbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatadocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMikio HirabayashiRocket SoftwareYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2009202019852017
Current release3.2.0, December 20220.9.3, August 20202.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonooptionalyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
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++
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnoyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infoU2 Basicyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoconfigurableDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Riak KVTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetUniData,UniVerseYugabyteDB
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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