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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.featurebase.comprometheus.iorethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172015200920182019
Current release2022, May 20222.4.1, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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