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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB

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Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

rethinkdb.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

rethinkdb.com/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

2009

2022

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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