DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. RavenDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.69
Rank	#71	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#322	Overall
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#208	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	2.53
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	2.87
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

google.github.io/lovefield

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

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

doc.nuodb.com

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2008

2014

2013

2010

1992

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

5.4, July 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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 (GQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.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
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

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

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Java, SQL

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

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.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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