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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

postgis.net

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Google

IBM

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2000

2005

2017

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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Recent citations in the news

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