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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. searchxml vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.stardog.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.stardog.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

Machbase

informationpartners gmbh

Stardog-Union

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

2010

2018

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

1.0

7.3.0, May 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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