Riak vs Vertica

Overview

Riak

Stacks103

Followers137

Votes44

GitHub Stars4.0K

Forks535

Vertica

Stacks88

Followers120

Votes16

Riak vs Vertica: What are the differences?

Riak: A distributed, decentralized data storage system. Riak is a distributed database designed to deliver maximum data availability by distributing data across multiple servers. As long as your client can reach one Riak server, it should be able to write data. In most failure scenarios, the data you want to read should be available, although it may not be the most up-to-date version of that data; Vertica: Engineering experiences that amaze. Vertica provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.

Riak and Vertica can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.

Riak is an open source tool with 3.27K GitHub stars and 533 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Riak's open source repository on GitHub.

Sentry, Twilio SendGrid, and Nutanix are some of the popular companies that use Riak, whereas Vertica is used by Taboola, HomeUnion, and Points International. Riak has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 54 developers stacks; compared to Vertica, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Riak	Vertica
Riak is a distributed database designed to deliver maximum data availability by distributing data across multiple servers. As long as your client can reach one Riak server, it should be able to write data. In most failure scenarios, the data you want to read should be available, although it may not be the most up-to-date version of that data.	It provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.
-	Analyze All of Your Data. No longer move data or settle for siloed views;Achieve Scale and Performance;Fear of growing data volumes and users is a thing of the past;Future-Proof Your Analytics
Statistics
GitHub Stars 4.0K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 535	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 103	Stacks 88
Followers 137	Followers 120
Votes 44	Votes 16
Pros & Cons
Pros 14 High Performance 11 High Availability 9 Easy Scalability 5 Flexible 1 Strong Consistency	Pros 3 Shared nothing or shared everything architecture 1 Partition pruning and predicate push down on Parquet 1 Vertica is the only product which offers partition prun 1 Query-Optimized Storage 1 Fully automated Database Designer tool
Integrations
No integrations available	Oracle Golang MongoDB MySQL Sass Mode PowerBI Tableau Talend

What are some alternatives to Riak, Vertica?

MongoDB

MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.

MySQL

The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.

SQLite

SQLite is an embedded SQL database engine. Unlike most other SQL databases, SQLite does not have a separate server process. SQLite reads and writes directly to ordinary disk files. A complete SQL database with multiple tables, indices, triggers, and views, is contained in a single disk file.

Cassandra

Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.

Memcached

Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.

MariaDB

Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.

RethinkDB

RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn.

ArangoDB

A distributed free and open-source database with a flexible data model for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.