DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

rethinkdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Esgyn

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2015

2014

1995

2009

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.0.0, July 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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