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DBMS > Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmaxdb.sap.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperGoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MireoDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2014198420202000
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.9.10.12, February 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
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 infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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