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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

rethinkdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2009

2019

2001

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
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

Clojure
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

yes

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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