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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2009

2015

2006

2018

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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