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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB	A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store	Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores	Score 0.07 Rank #371   Overall #39   Graph DBMS
Website	google.github.io/­lovefield	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentation	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics	bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer	Google	Microsoft	ByteDance, originally Terark	Transwarp
Initial release	2014	2016	2016
Current release	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	JavaScript	C++	C++
Server operating systems	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	hosted
Data scheme	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no
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.	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes	no	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods		ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	C++ API Java API	OpenCypher
Supported programming languages	JavaScript	C# Java PHP	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Transact SQL	no
Triggers	Using read-only observers	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding, horizontal partitioning	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes	yes	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	no	yes	no	yes
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	Lovefield	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	TerarkDB	Transwarp StellarDB
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