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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. RRDtool vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVIndustry 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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerSiteWhereSimer Plaha
Initial release20092015199920102018
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.0.0, September 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open 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# availableJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-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 indexesyesrestrictednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitednonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
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 datasets can be storednonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnononoAtomic 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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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