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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#359	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

rethinkdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Mireo

Initial release

2002

2009

2020

Current release

4.0

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Atomic single-document operations

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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