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System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2019

2011

2010

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Java

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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