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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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 storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An 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 indexesSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoSimer Plaha
Initial release2009200920202018
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 editioncommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP 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++
Python
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 basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
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 basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak Securityyesno

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