DBMS > Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

splicemachine.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Splice Machine

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2015

2013

2008

2014

2020

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

3.1, March 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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 datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

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