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

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2009

2015

2010

2011

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

1.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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