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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataSpaceTime 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 storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score123.20
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.snowflake.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Snowflake Computing Inc.MireoSimer Plaha
Initial release2009201420202018
Current release2.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedyesFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoAtomic 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesno

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