DBMS > Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Mireo

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2020

2000

2020

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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, using Riak Security

yes

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