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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. QuestDB vs. RethinkDB

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

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#348  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverquestdb.iorethinkdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverquestdb.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleMachbaseMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20142013198920142009
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 availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageyesSQL with time-series 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)
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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) Javano
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factoryes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID for single-table writesAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes 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 tableyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions
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