DBMS > FeatureBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. RavenDB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Lovefield vs. RavenDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

google.github.io/lovefield

ravendb.net

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

docs.heavy.ai

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

ravendb.net/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Google

Hibernating Rhinos

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2016

2014

2010

2000

Current release

2022, May 2022

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

5.4, July 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 queries

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source 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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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