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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. NuoDB vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#293	Overall
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Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2014

2013

1984

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users and groups

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