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

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

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comrethinkdb.comsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualrethinkdb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer PlahaYandex
Initial release20022009201220182019
Current release4.02.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenoneActive-passive shard replication
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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