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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2002

2009

2015

2008

Current release

4.0

3.2.0, December 2022

1.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Windows

server-less

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

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

on the application server

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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