DBMS > etcd vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

rocksdb.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2009

2018

Current release

3.4, August 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

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