Riak vs. VictoriaMetrics Community

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Riak
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Riak is a NoSQL database from Basho Technologies in Bellevue, Washington.N/A
VictoriaMetrics Community
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
VictoriaMetrics is a high-performance monitoring solution and time series databaseN/A
Pricing
RiakVictoriaMetrics Community
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RiakVictoriaMetrics Community
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details—Enterprise support prices are negotiated individually with every customer. The price depends on many factors such as: * Costs for the existing monitoring solution * The amounts of collected data and the workload specifics (unique time series, churn rate, ingestion rate, query types, query rate, etc.) * The amounts of compute resources needed for the monitoring solution * Additional enterprise features * SLA tier Contact us at info@victoriametrics.com for more details on the pricing.
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Features
RiakVictoriaMetrics Community
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
Riak
9.4
2 Ratings
6% above category average
VictoriaMetrics Community
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Ratings
Performance10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Availability10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Concurrency10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Security6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Data model flexibility10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
RiakVictoriaMetrics Community
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(5 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
RiakVictoriaMetrics Community
Likelihood to Recommend
Basho Technologies
Riak is well suited to applications such as:
Transaction logging e.g. financial transactions and/or exchange rates.
Storing time series data, especially IoT.
Storing massive amounts of data e.g. corporation wide backups, data lakes etc.
A fully s3 compatible replacement for Amazon s3 ensuring data privacy.
Riak is not as well suited to:
Traditional RDBMS functions, especially those that join the outputs of one or more queries together to produce the desired result.
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VictoriaMetrics
Best suited, where your data is highly cardinal since it does a better job at maintaining it than other competitors. It is also well suited if you are using Prometheus and are looking for something that is less hungry for resources in comparison since the migration would be easier. But in case the company is small and wants a solution which is cheap and relies on built-in visualizations, it is not something that is suited. Although it takes fewer resources than Prometheus, it is still resource-intensive and attracts a high cost for maintenance.
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Pros
Basho Technologies
  • Highly available: If nodes go offline for any reason, the system still operates.
  • Highly scalable: There is a minimum of 5 nodes, which can handle a lot by themselves. When scaling is required, it can be done easily, with minimal to no downtime on large scales.
  • Very fast searching: Riak has SOLR indexing built-into the core product, which makes querying for data very fast.
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VictoriaMetrics
  • Easy to configure and manage
  • Ready to be configured at cloud and microservices
  • Easy to scale vertically and horizontally
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Cons
Basho Technologies
  • Deletes!!! We've seen on numerous occasions where Riak has "resurrected" deleted data. We've worked with Basho numerous times and tried multiple changes to the way we interact with Riak to prevent the problem but it still remains. The deletes seem to reappear weeks, even months, after the delete was issued. We've had to work around this issue by providing a "deleted" flag for all data objects stored in Riak. Thus, we do no delete but simply flip the flag. Excess baggage we would really like to not have to worry about.
  • Search. Currently there's no way to tell what data you have in Riak without already knowing a particular bucket/key. There is a way to list the keys for a given bucket but due to performance implications, this is not a viable method to lookup data. Especially when you have a large amount of keys in the bucket.
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VictoriaMetrics
  • Community and Eco system -> Although it supports the ecosystem of Prometheus, it is still troublesome for someone who's not using Prometheus
  • Configuration is not so easy, especially if you are a beginner, you will struggle a bit. Even the documentation is not so welcoming for beginners
  • Built-in Visualisation is bare minimal, leading almost everyone to use some other extension/tool
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Likelihood to Renew
Basho Technologies
Right now, I'm on a project where we need databases that can run on embedded systems. Riak isn't necessarily the best fit for that scenario. But when we need a clustered database, that's where we'd start considering Riak.
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VictoriaMetrics
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Support Rating
Basho Technologies
Despite Basho going bankrupt and the project becoming fully open-source, community support is reasonably good, albeit a little slow at times. Paid enterprise-grade support is also available from former Basho engineers but the same company also contributes to the community support for free for basic questions or specific knowledge areas.
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VictoriaMetrics
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Alternatives Considered
Basho Technologies
Because of the RESTful HTTP interface, the consistency model, and because of the catalog-driven data model, Riak was an easy win over Redis and Memcached.
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VictoriaMetrics
Prometheus only support PromQL and it is very complex with different exporter required for different requirement like Windowsexporter,linixexporter,sqlexporter etc but VictoriaMetrics is very simple comapred to it. VictoriaMetrics support both PromQL and MetricQL and can be integrated with Graphana easily. It is very easy to setup and learn compared to mutiple Prometheus exporters
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Return on Investment
Basho Technologies
  • Riak has been a key part of our company's build process for our client's search backend. It is valuable for is in that it provides a reliable way to view the current search index.
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VictoriaMetrics
  • Lowered our infra costs in comparison with our older tools
  • Need minimal effort for migration since it already supports Prometheus ecosystem
  • Saved on Storage costs
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