DBMS > Riak TS vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. TerarkDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.timescale.com

typesense.org

Technical documentation

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

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.timescale.com

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

ByteDance, originally Terark

Timescale

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2015

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP 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

C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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 datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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