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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. RisingWave vs. SQL.JS

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasesql.js.org
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RisingWave LabsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release200920222012
Current release2.4.1, August 20201.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++RustJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
PostgreSQL wire 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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresUDFs in Python or Javano
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers and Rolesno

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