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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

google.github.io/lovefield

sql.js.org

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Microsoft

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2010

2014

2012

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

.NET

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

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 and fine grained access rights

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