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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Google

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2015

2014

2012

2004

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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