DBMS > RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2013

2018

2016

2009

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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