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System Properties Comparison Linter vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

linter.ru

rethinkdb.com

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

relex.ru

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alessandro Furieri

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1990

2009

2008

2022

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

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

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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