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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PlanetScale vs. RethinkDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverplanetscale.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverplanetscale.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleMachbaseMicrosoftPlanetScaleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20142013198920202009
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++GoC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard levelAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tableyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infousers and table-level permissions

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