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System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite vs. SwayDB

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.08
Rank#187  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrethinkdb.comwww.sqlite.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Dwayne Richard HippSimer Plaha
Initial release1984200920002018
Current release7.4.1.1, 20212.4.1, August 20203.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CScala
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC 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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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