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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comsiridb.comswaydb.simer.autempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesCesbitSimer PlahaTempoIQ
Initial release20092009201720182012
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++ErlangCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes infoNumeric datanoyes
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 SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP APIHTTP 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
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnonono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak Securitysimple rights management via user accountsnosimple authentication-based access control

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