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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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 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

Key-value store

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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

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

Website

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2013

2011

2016

2020

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C++
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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