DBMS > EXASOL vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. StarRocks

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Exasol

Google

Machbase

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2000

2014

2013

1989

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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