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Name

Description

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.75
Rank	#214	Overall
	#101	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.risingwave.com/database

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

Technical documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

RisingWave Labs

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2019

Current release

1.2, September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and Roles

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