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DBMS > Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SpaceTime vs. STSdb

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereMireoSTS Soft SC
Initial release2009201020202011
Current release3.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBaseFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseReal-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 systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesno

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