DBMS > JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2014

2015

2014

2015

Current release

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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