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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.progress.com/marklogic

nsdb.io

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

MarkLogic Corp.

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2001

2017

2018

1987

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

11.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java, Scala

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Atomic execution of operations

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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