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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn 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 indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.sadasengine.comsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release20092009200620122018
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++JavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JavaScript API
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJava
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"horizontal partitioningnonenone
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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