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DBMS > Lovefield vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. OrientDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldorientdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheredbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSiteWhereMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142010201020202019
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.2.29, March 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")predefined schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language, no joinsnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascriptnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersHooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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