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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. Newts vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2013

2014

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0, March 2022

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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