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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteboilerbay.comrethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias OetikerAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20022009199920122018
Current release4.02.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
in-process shared library
Pipes
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC 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 infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonono

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