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System Properties Comparison OpenQM vs. OrientDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmorientdb.orgrethinkdb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1993201020092022
Current release3.4-123.2.29, March 20242.4.1, August 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C 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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, Javascript
TriggersyesHooksClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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