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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Vitess

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresql.js.orgswaydb.simer.auvitess.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer PlahaThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20092010201220182013
Current release2.4.1, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJavaScript APIADO.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
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
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 proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBasenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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