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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2017

2014

1984

1993

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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