DBMS > Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

1995

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

4.0.1, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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