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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

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

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2014

2000

2018

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

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

JavaScript
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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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