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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Tkrzw vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. WakandaDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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

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

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

wakanda.github.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

wakanda.github.io/doc

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Rocket Software

Wakanda SAS

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2020

1985

2012

2017

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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