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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Pinecone vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Pinecone vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.pinecone.iorethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrethinkdb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperGoogleMachbasePinecone Systems, IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20142013201920091992
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 20232.4.1, August 202017, July 2015
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 servicenonoyesnono
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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
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes 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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
PythonC 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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 dataACIDnoAtomic 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 tablenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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