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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

FatCloud

Google

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2008

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V12

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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