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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Stardog

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Name	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	Stardog  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Graph DBMS RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 2.07 Rank #122   Overall #11   Graph DBMS #6   RDF stores
Website	google.github.io/­lovefield	machbase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	www.stardog.com
Technical documentation	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	machbase.com/­dbms	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	docs.stardog.com
Developer	Google	Machbase	Microsoft	Stardog-Union
Initial release	2014	2013	2016	2010
Current release	2.1.12, February 2017	V8.0, August 2023		7.3.0, May 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial free test version available	commercial	commercial 60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	C	C++	Java
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux macOS Windows	hosted	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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	no Import/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	SQL-like query language	yes	Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methods		gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	GraphQL query language HTTP API Jena RDF API OWL RDF4J API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SNARL SPARQL Spring Data Stardog Studio TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	C# Java PHP	.Net Clojure Groovy Java JavaScript Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	Transact SQL	user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggers	Using read-only observers	no	no	yes via event handlers
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	selectable replication factor	yes	Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system			Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	yes relationships in graphs
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	no	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes using MemoryDB	yes volatile and lookup table		yes
User concepts Access control	no	simple password-based access control	yes	Access rights for users and roles
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