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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.37
Rank	#265	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#281	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#207	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#357	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#136	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

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

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Google

Percona

Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2014

2015

2016

1998

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

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

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

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

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

The main customers are: China National Petroleum Corporation China Petrochemical...
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Market metrics

At present, the main market is in China, but expansion to the international market...
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Licensing and pricing models

Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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