DBMS > Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Social network pages

Developer

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

1999

2010

2013

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

1.8.0, 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

simple password-based access control

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