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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	FeatureBase  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.31 Rank #292   Overall #135   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	www.featurebase.com	www.hawkular.org	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.featurebase.com	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors	Community supported by Red Hat	Google	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2017	2014	2014	1993
Current release	2022, May 2022		2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Go	Java	JavaScript
Server operating systems	Linux macOS	Linux OS X Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL queries	no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods	gRPC JDBC Kafka Connector ODBC	HTTP REST		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Java Python	Go Java Python Ruby	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		no	no	yes
Triggers	no	yes via Hawkular Alerting	Using read-only observers	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding based on Cassandra	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	yes	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
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	no	yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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