DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Lovefield vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sybase, SAP

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2014

1993

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

In-Memory realm

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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