DBMS > Lovefield vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Google

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2014

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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