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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2014

2018

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

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-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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