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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP IQ vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Google

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

1984

1994

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.4.1.1, 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

HP Open VMS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes, on a single node

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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