DBMS > Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

1984

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2016

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

MVCC

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 capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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