DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Stardog

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

cachelot.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

Microsoft

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2015

2018

2014

2015

2010

Current release

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

yes

using RocksDB

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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