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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. ObjectBox vs. OushuDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

objectbox.io

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

docs.objectbox.io

www.oushu.com/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Machbase

ObjectBox Limited

Oushu

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

users and table-level permissions

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