DBMS > Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

informationpartners gmbh

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

1995

2019

2015

2008

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

1.0

5.0.0, August 2020

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

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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