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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Vitess

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitequasar.airethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auvitess.io
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2009200920182013
Current release3.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binaryyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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