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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsraima.comsphinxsearch.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.raima.comsphinxsearch.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftRaima Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release20142016198420012012
Current release2.1.12, February 201715, June 20213.5.1, February 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationnoyes
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnonoyes
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LovefieldMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSphinxWakandaDB
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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