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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteboilerbay.compouchdb.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20022012200920092011
Current release4.07.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++ErlangC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infovia viewsyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC 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
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak Securityno

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