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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.07
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Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
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Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

boilerbay.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2002

2009

1992

2018

Current release

4.0

3.2.0, December 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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