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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB vs. Warp 10

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeSearch engineKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrethinkdb.comsphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.auwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Sphinx Technologies Inc.Simer PlahaSenX
Initial release20132009200120182015
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynonoyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGoC 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
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoWarpScript
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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