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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financerethinkdb.comsurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperAxibase CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SurrealDB LtdSimer PlahaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20132009202220181998
Current release155852.4.1, August 2020v1.5.0, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++RustScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQL
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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