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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. OushuDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Snowflake

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

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBrethinkdb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmswww.oushu.com/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleMachbaseOushuThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2014201320092014
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 20234.0.1, August 20202.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportnoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functions
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesSharding inforange basedyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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 tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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