DBMS > Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

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

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

1984

2015

2000

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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