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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sadasengine.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerSADAS s.r.l.Simer Plaha
Initial release20092009199920062018
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 20221.8.0, 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoNumeric data onlyyesno
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
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
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnonono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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