DBMS > RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

rethinkdb.com

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sphinxsearch.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2009

2013

2015

2001

2018

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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