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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Riak TS vs. Sqrrl vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 KVAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comsqrrl.comgithub.com/­torodb/­servervitess.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.8KdataThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20092015201220162013
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.0.0, September 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitednoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedShardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entitynoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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