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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. Postgres-XL

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on CassandraBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS Group
Initial release2014200320142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.1.12, February 20171.6.27, May 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
TriggersUsing read-only observersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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