DBMS > Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. ObjectBox vs. SpaceTime vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

objectbox.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Mireo

TempoIQ

Initial release

2014

2017

2020

2012

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
C++
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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

simple authentication-based access control

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