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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.monetdb.orgrdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftMonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer Plaha
Initial release20142012200420042018
Current release2.1.12, February 2017Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScala
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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