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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.sqream.com

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2010

2009

2013

2017

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Hooks

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

users and table-level permissions

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