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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2002

2014

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

no

no

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Using read-only observers

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

no

no

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