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System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.83
Rank	#73	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2020

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

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"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

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

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