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DBMS > BigObject vs. Couchbase vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Couchbase vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCouchbase infoOriginally called Membase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile databaseEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store infooriginating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score16.59
Rank#36  Overall
#5  Document stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.couchbase.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.couchbase.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Couchbase, Inc.GoogleAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2015201120142012
Current releaseServer: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBusiness Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, Go and ErlangJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use casesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaFunctions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++nono
Triggersnoyes infovia the TAP protocolUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoincluding cross data center replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoselectable on a per-operation basis
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoEphemeral bucketsyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.nono

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